Iraq

Reuters: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.
Russia's Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air s[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Washington Free Beacon: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their "victory" over Islamic State after eight months of urban warfare, bringing an end to thr[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From WFB: A retired U.S. Special Forces operative who is now an aid worker recently saved a little girl from Islamic State gunfire in western Mosul, Iraq, and it was all captured on video.
David Eubank, 56, an aid worker with the Free Burma[...] Continue Reading

REUTERS: About 100,000 children are trapped in extremely dangerous conditions in the remaining Islamic State-held enclave in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the United Nations said on Monday.
Children were being used as human shields [...] Continue Reading

Shades of Syria.
BAGHDAD (AP) – An Iraqi military officer says Islamic State militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul.
The officer with the anti-terrorism forces said Saturday [...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Guardian: Iraqi military leaders have halted their push to recapture west Mosul from Islamic State as international outrage grew over the civilian toll from airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in a single d[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The NY Post: US and Iraqi officials believe the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with diehard followers to fight the battle of Mosul, and is now hiding out in the desert, focusing[...] Continue Reading

International Gay Day, also known as International Day Against Homophobia, is May 17. In Mexico, May 17 is National Day Against Homophobia. That's the day Manning is to be released from jail.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - A wave of attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 23 people, the latest in a series of assaults blamed on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS.)
A suicide car bomb ripped through a wholesale market in the sprawling Shiite neighborhood of Sa[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From Christian Today: A survivor of the Islamic State (ISIS) rampage in Iraq has provided a fresh account of a Christian man's horrific crucifixion by the Islamist extremists.
The surviv[...] Continue Reading

That's because his name is treason.
Excerpted From CNS: In an interview with National Public Radio on Sunday, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said that the U.S. military could defeat the Islamic State if the commander-in[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted From The Independent: A mass grave has been discovered near Mosul containing the remains of around 100 beheaded bodies, according to the Iraqi military.
The grave was discovered in the grounds of the [...] Continue Reading

The fact that Obama wants to be able to say he kicked ISIS out of their last major city in Iraq before the election had nothing to do with the timing of this operation.
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Excerpted From The Washington Free Beacon: CNN’s Arwa Damon reported Tuesday from Iraq on the “terrifying” booby traps left behind by the Islamic State, such as a massive sulfur fire.
As ISIS retreats from parts of northern Iraq near Mosul, the cou[...] Continue Reading

Speaking on "The Cats Roundtable" Sunday radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York Petraus said, concerning Iraq, "“There’s no question in my mind that the Islamic State will be clea[...] Continue Reading

None of this would be going on had Obama not abandoned Iraq in the first place. He had an obligation to leave behind sufficient troops and an intelligence apparatus to keep Al Qaeda from reconstituting, which they now have, as ISIS.
(CNN) - ISIS rounded up and kill[...] Continue Reading

(CNSNews.com) – In its report on the genocide of the Yazidi people in Sinjar, Iraq, at the hands of the Islamic State, the United Nations documented that thousands of men and boys (12 or older) were slaughtered in the s[...] Continue Reading

Was this entire refugee crisis planned? Is it partially why Obama removed the only check to what became the reconstitution of Al Qaeda in Iraq as ISIS? Was this a plan to flood Europe and the U.S. with "refugees," ie, Muslim invaders? Or did he just get lucky through incompetence?
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Right before voting, he wants to be able to say that he has liberated ISIS's last stronghold in Iraq, thereby validating his and Hillary's policy on the matter.
Excerpted From The Los Angeles Times: The Pentagon plans to send about 600 add[...] Continue Reading

Washington (CNN) - ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.
The shell was categorized by officials as either a rocket or artil[...] Continue Reading

(CNSNews.com) - Another 446 U.S. troops have arrived in Iraq within the past week, all part of the troop increase announced by the Obama administration in July.
Their arrival suggests that the battle to retake Mosul will happen soon, an[...] Continue Reading

By saying this, she's admitting that she makes her military decisions for poltical reasons, not military ones, because she's only saying this because she knows it's popular with her base, and some independents.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq on Sunday executed 36 men convicted of taking part in the Islamic State of Iraq an Syria (ISIS) massacre of hundreds ofsoldiers in 2014, officials said.
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The Obama agenda.
Excerpted from Fox News: As many as 100,000 Iranian-backed Shiite militia are now fighting on the ground in Iraq, according to U.S. military officials -- raising concerns that should the Islamic Sta[...] Continue Reading

Excerpted from Breitbart: A congressional task force created by three Republican-led House panels has confirmed allegations that senior U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) leaders manipulated intell[...] Continue Reading

GENEVA (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a daily report on events in Iraq.
The report followed a statement on Thursday from the Iraqi Observatory for Human rights, which said about 1,900 civilians had been captured by an esti[...] Continue Reading